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DAILY EVENING EDITION Fum-M for Eastern Oregon by th Foiled States Weather ()tr"rr 1 Portland. Tonight an1 Tuesday unsettled; probably rain or nm ; elder etst portion. DAILY EVENING EDITION TO ADVERTISERS. I u- l.n-1 Oregoulan lion the Urgent paid i Irculatlon of any paper lu Oregon, eaat of I'ortland ami orer twice the circulation In Pendleton of any otber newapapct. COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER NO. 871.' VOL. 27. DAILY EAST ORKl.ONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1916. NEW RAIDS ARE FORESEEN FROM GERMAN FLIERS .NRwxDaoers Predict Renewal of ..... a r.il....: C,,M Aerial miacus runuwwK juicc...- ful Expeditions on Sunday. CENSORSHIP IS CONDEMNED OM KUI1 and SU injuitil lmiv. Cd Aircraft Of the Gormen HW Daring Attack, One In BftgM Moonlight una Other ut nigh Noon London IXiurful, LONDON, Jan. 21. Newspapers; predicted a renews of uerlul atacka, declaring fokkers undoubtedly would i sum.Ianl tho Zeppelins They de- Banded greater preparations for de - lending London The limes aasuiiea the censor, forbidding the publication of acluul localities of the two attacks. yesterday. One person was killed and ! six injured. The chronicles corre-; spondent at tho front reported a lirlt- sh aviator rooted two loKKers. The fokker fear replaces the Zep pelin chill and England anticipates lresli aauulta Tho press, comment -lng Oil yeelt rdu) s raid, predicted I whole s.uadron ol new ulivraft will maJM UU next raid The Times de dared: "There were two rulds yesterday, one In bright moonlight, the other ul High noon. Thousands witnessed thMn. .Moreover, the enemy appar ently knew the whereabouts of the assaults Uerlln undoubtedly has oeen Informed now. .Soon, if the een ,,r p nulls, we will publish the tier-, man account of the locality. " laONDOaN, Jan M. 10 hostile aeroplane attacks were made on the Kent ..oast Sunday. In the first, Biedi earl) In the nioriilu ny single aer oplane, nine bomlw were dropped, killing one person nnd Injuring six. The scond attack early Sunda after noon was made h two aeroplanes No , ,,Mialtles were reported In thlsj attack The raiders escaped. The of Octal account says: "The war office announces that, tak- ; af advantage of the bright moon-' light .i hostile aeroplane visited the oast coast of Kent at 1 o'clock Sun day morning. After dropping nine uomlM In rapid succession It made off eastward. Private Propert) Damaged. "No naval or military damage weal done but there was some damage to iiHvatl property Incendiary bombs .aimed llres which were extinguished by 2 a. m. The following c.tsualttf occurred, one man killed, two men -tne woman and three children slight-j Jv Injured. "Two hostile seaplanes made a sec- i ml attack on the same locauti snort I) after noon After coming under a heavy fire the raiders disappeared pursued by our naval end military machines. 'The enemy effected no damage and no casualties have been reported. MEIUJN. Jan. SI. (Wireless to say-. vllle ) The admiralty announced that German naval aeropUnes bM-l H.rdexl the station, barracks MM docks at Dover on Sunday morning, j FRANTICALLY TO 6EI IX) UR RE KNOWN TO RE DEAD I NDER QIOANTfO SNOW SLIDE. SKAfTLK, Wrnsh., Jan 21. With four known dead and three or possi bly more, missing, some of the vic tims still are burled under snow and rock despite two days' work of 300 men on the scene of the Corea dlsn-s-ter. Eight Injured passengers aro in Kvcrctt hospitals. In many places feel of snow seals all trace of the tragedy. Workmen are blasting, hoping to'rons of their company reach the conches containing bodies I .1. Uo Haley ol this now f. falling and danger of further i first speaker Introduced nnd he pic slides Is Increasing. More workmen I tured very graphically the Inland em were hurried to the scene today plre of the stagecoach days and the i Inland empire of the present, th.- Vewl Is Not fYtjiplnl. j Pendleton of frontier times and th" SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 21 Pendleton as metamorphosed by the I'.nported disabled, the liner Admiral ! advent or the railroad Schley la not crippled and Is due Intel A c. Spencer o -W R. A N. uttor Ihls afternoon, according to wireless n.y followed Mr Haley nnd spoke 'it reports. j some length upon the value of the . public's cooperation to the railroads The general Electric Company has He told of the constant dangers lo perfected new and more powerful , successful railroading In the Increas- gns-electrlc locomotives for the "Danilng . s-.iit and agitation Patch" line. ' at the railroad! and he dael Income Tax Law is Constitutional Declares Court BUPHEME TRIBUNAL HANDS DOWN decision WRITTEN by vwncm wms. WASHINGTON, Jtfti 24 The au-! preine court held the. federal Income ! tax constitutional. I chM Ju"ce Whit rendered the pointing out the grout pow ers of legislatures to levy taxes Lively Aeroplane Kaids I ake rlace Along Both Fronts BERLIN REPORTS FRENCH BOHB6 strike BISHOP'S HOOKS, KILLING a. 11ERLIN. Jan. 1. An fflclal nouncement said French aviators 1 dropped bombs whim struck the res - , dence of the Bishop of Metx. kllllns two citrUtalU and wounding eight ,(ni, machine was shot down and the aviators captured. Ilombs also glruck tne c,in house and Metz hos- pltal German aviators, retaliating, bombarded railroad stations and mil-1 ( Itary establishments, oehlnd the west- j t ern from. Allied aviators raided J Monastlr, killing several Inhabitants j and wounding others. Concernulng the western front, the taieMenl said: "The Germane had the upper hand of several air engage ments Lively atrillery and aero plane actions along the entire wesl front. Artillery north of Ovinia: eel a Russian train afire. FEARED FOR KILLING Kl PASO, Jan. ill. Mexican re pilsals against Americans are feared ea 1 result of the Carrunzistu execu tion of the Duran brothers in retalia tion for slaying Bert Akers. an Am erican. Authorities fear the Durans ma) become martvrs nnd that the peuns may attempt to start a reign of terror. The display of their corpses at Juarez seemed to provoke ' auger rather than fear among the Mexicans Frederick Duran admitted he shot Akers who was trying to en-! the Duran home rustled cattle. while searching More Than 20 Railroad Men Are Guests of at Banquet Itallroad men met with Pendleton's buslness and professional men about . . . . . , the banquet board Saturday night to Cellml L- the opening of. the Echo-. I '.. -..!.. ...tli.rr nn.t nfl rtwi l.l ml. Jum,llon 9mMt ( ,h(l .w ,t ft N Oo. and railroad engineers were the guests of honor and there were mole than II present dleton and Pilot Rock Junction and The banquet, held In the Hotel the making of provisions for accom Pendleton dining room, began at 9 modatlng the new families that have o'clock and It was ufter 1 in the morning when Chairman J. V Tall man adjourned it. Wrhile the various i curses were being served, and let it be said that the banquet was a strict ly prohibition affair even to the sou drink cocktail, a program was given orchestra numbers alternated with vocal, violin and literary numbers. Miss t?anell Baldwin played several beautiful violin numbers. Miss Olive i.winn Bleased the banqueters with a splendid dramatic reading, two vau devilllan ladles sang a number of songs and Messrs. K. Livingston and Zoe Carney gave a couple of eom edv sketches. The speaking part of the program was exceptionally good and it may lie safely said that the Interchange of ideas generated a spirit of co-opera- Hon and mutual understanding tween the railroad men and the bi City, was the AUSTRIAN ARMY MAKING EFFORT TO CUT RETREAT Remnants of Montenegrins are in Grave Danger of Being Captured in Their March to Adriatic, ITALIANS ARE IN ALBANIA Flash with u-trinn Expected with In a Fortnight Serbians Poking On la Corfu King Nicholas I -til Kiim- in Order to r.ain Time for Mi. rmjs Itctreat. HOME, Jan 21 The remnant of the .Montenegrin army are in grave danger of capture. The Austrians are reported heading eastward to j -top the relreat toward the Adriatic.; The Serbians In Albania are rapid y heading for Corfu. Within a fort night the Italian troops in Albania will c'ash with th- Austrians. Officials conflrmea the report that Nicholas adopted a ruse in getting an armistice from the Austrians In order aln lime for a retreat PKTItOGUAD. Jan 24. It was of ficially announced that Russian tor pedoboats sHnk 33 Turkish windjam mers and destroyed even at their docks during a raid of the Anatolian; coast. The villages of Wamson and1 onnepatz were bombarded and stores, barracks and custom houses destroy Would Have the Tri-State League in Action Again WAIT M' llEDIK THINKS HOFLD QO IF HANDLED COKHI-XTLY. MclYedle of Portland and Other baseball magnates of the north-j west would have the breath of Ufe blown back Into the Western Trl- state league and have wnispered ie Harry N. Grayson, a sport writer ol the oreR.nian, that the Western Trl state would have easy sledding this v..r if .,anrt,,i correctlv. Thereupon j Mr Grayson elucidates somewhat In ,ie tollowing language: There is onlv one wav In which the I (Ccmtlnued on page four.) Businessmen Saturday Night only the lair-mlnded public could pre- v"" serious embarrassment to the railroad companies, (lletl)n.8 blUjatlons to the O -W. K. . V- mt wMa kaj --- hpr obUgivUo1 , thp piUSt and would ,,,, ,n lhp (uture. Amon(f ,ne preg. ent obligations, he said, were the building of a good road between Pen- come to Pemlloton as a result of the! new terminal A. w. Parley, who was scheduled to! talk on the "Railroad Situation.'' was! unable to be present. O, M. Rice dls- j cussed "Railroad Transportation Ini Relation to Community Develop-! ment. ' pointing out the raise In val ues, the Increase of wealth the stlm illation of all Industries and the gen-: eral growth of a country after trie railroad enters It. C S Jackson, publisher of the Ore gon Journal, spoke Informally, em- j phaslring the value of fair play In I life Incldenlallv he paid a tribute! lo tile o-W. I( N. as one of tH.-1 mivst progressive railroad Companies in the country. William McMurray. general passen-1 gar agent, in the course of his re- marks, declared that the O -W. R : N. will make a bigger effort than ev. er to advertise the Round-tin this year and will trv especially to draw easterners to the Pendleton show F. W. Itoblnson. traffic manager told something of the difficulties con. "'" mooern-oay railroad and Indicated a few ways In which the public can help. HIaine llnlleck Of the tax department, a former Pendle. ton bo. created amusement by rend ing items from "The Pendleton sun " a little paper which he publshed when he was 13 yoirs old Col. J n. ley Compared the celebration with a similar event a third of a century are llrected when the railroad first entered Pen cd that ' dleton. " -n if"" aT. m r r n eO fl .- t3 Aa at au an. MM IVI a at aataataBBBse- - ta, 7 . m a. IIIIIImBi Mffl1 mSUm COUNTESS D NBW YOKK, Jup de Pierrefeu. who in 21.-rCountess her girlhood days was ki Tudor, of Boston. Is ibout to return to France, to resume i-..pitai aunmg which was so pathetically Interrupted when her U-, ; lied husband fell last spring while do lt ling ambulance work for France She ie expected to come to New "uv" " Here on Saturday at Dollar Per Bu. OVEK DMl.ouo HrsHEI.s MORE PI RfH.VSED FOU M. H. HOI'S ER MILL ALSO BtTYA As on Friday heavy selling of wheat occurred here Saturday afternoon and not less than 1U0.U00 bushels was taken by M H. Houser. through his local representative, C. O. Rlnehart. A price of 11 per bushel was paid for this wheat and the same pr.ee Uirtcovered and also an said to have been paid by the Pendle-j ton Roller Mil's for 50.000 bushels purcnaseo uunn? a perioa covexins several days. Among the larger lota of wheat purchased for Houser Saturday were those of John Crow, Grant Ehrhart, L. Rcthrock. Henry Rosenberg, Gun der Turgeson and L. L, Mann. No other buyers were in the market. The outside market today is as fol lows: Chicago. Jan. 21 (Special 1 July, 125-125 5-8. CHICAGO. May 132 3-8; I'ortland PORTLAND, Ore.. Jan. 21 lal.) Club. 101-110; blueetem. 1-2-116. pec-"j 113 ! UTPrpool, LIVERPOOL. Jan. 22 Wheal - No. 1. Manitoba, no stock; No. 2. lis Id; No. 3. 13s lid; No I hard win- ter. new. 13s 3d; No. 1 northern BUM"" mh school basketball team and! lluth. 13s lid. I In American terms the lop price is now 12. 05 per Liverpool ushel. BcUpaa, the famous racehorse, unbeaten In any of Its IS races NEWS SUMMARY ;cncral New mi MSTCd in London from QfejaMl aircraft. InatrstM arc trying to tii off th-' retreat of MonlciM'gHn-. Raia hiTs floe to higher ground Im--fore floods in Colorailo. 1MMI liilror. Irving to ri'h ImhIIc. nml,-r -sionslkHa 111 Washington Loral Chinook brings high ngr lo I nwiilUng; water, dam. followed hv heavy snow. High school girls marooned h high water and have mailt experleearea, Spirit of ot -operation fttHHM al biintliict glen rnilrontlfrs More wheat sold Its-ally prices. at hlyh . . j PlSHREfZU York to speak on her war experi ences. With her four children she has been staying with her mother. Mrs. William Tudor, in Hancock. N. H. She la sailing' for Ftance the lat ter part of February with her children the youngest of whom is Just tlree years old, the oldest bov Is ter. and neir to the dlst neuished tltl ,,f io - a . i"uu uumiHni 10 WRECKED; MANY KILLED SCORE INJURED IN EXPLOSION FIRE PREVENTS RESCCERS ENTERING RI ILDIXG. BUFFALO. Jan. 21. Several per sons were killed and a score injured In an explosion which wrecked the Kelker Bb.wing company's plant Fin- prevented rescoers from enter ing the plant. Two bodies aave been unconscious girl with both legs broken. The police Mtjmt ,hi IS miui.. The commercial sales from the Al aska national forests during the past fiscal year amounted to 2. 498.000 board feet, valued at U8.672. The Alaska forests are much more than self supporting. High School Girls, Marooned by High Water, Finally Reach Home After Many Adventures Marooned some twenty miles from onie ny tne nigh waters w hich caus-' cd washouts on the railroad and thecase The young ladles spent the wagon roads, the girts who compose ! nicht at the Adams farm. tneir coacn. Miss nonney. had some Interesting adventures before they were rescui id brought h"m thi morning. They played In Weston Saturda; evening and Intended coining horn on the Sunday morning train. How aver, they awoke to find all trains ap ulled because of the conditions of the tracka Thereupon the set out afoot j and walked the ti.ree miles to .ithe- Da where they hired two automobiles to bring them to Pendleton The au- tos made the trip as tar as Kastland but there found further progress bar- red by a stream bisecting the road The young ladies returned to the John Adams farm this side of Adams ami telephoned U Pendleton Mr and Airs isim ii. inompson wnose daughter is on the team essayed to reach them but could get no farther than Baatland During the afternoon Wilbur Itadley. Italph Temple. Ned Fowler and other high school boys secured a handcar and set out over the waterlogged UraCM on a rescue expedition. Much of the time they weie pumping through water as the lra'ks were mutilated rot consi.Pi- were Misses Crace Rugg Vera Tern 's at Haranns and Base pie. Thelmti and Katherlne Thomp ;ot to Fasti. ind they were son. Delia Ferguson, Jessie Chesioii able dist uu When th. told that 1' WILD HORSE CREEK IS OVER BANKS A!ND ALL TRAFFIC STOPS Melting Snows Saturday and Sunday Sends Torrents of Water to Sweep Down Gulches Railroad and Macadam Washed Out-Tutuilla Creek Also on Rampage. Week-End Chinook is Followed by Another Storm This Morning Pendleton Folks Awake to Find Five Inch Blanket Covering Everything Out-of-Doors-Considerable Road Damage is Reported North of Pendleton. The week-end Chinook, which, swept away practically all of the pre vious snow and caused high water damage, was succeeded last night by a snow sturm that has continued well through the day. Pendleton people I awoke vith surprise this morning to find a tm inch blanket or snow over everything The melting snow Saturday and Sun- 1 day caused creeka to overflow ano orrents to sweep down gulches. The; 1 nrir.eiua: damage was along Wild Horse creek, the flood-waters wash-i page and in the lower end of Pendle ing out both the railroad and the ton swelled out of its banks and lnun macadam so that all traffic has beenj dated several acre. TOe county roavd suspended since Saturday night. j was made Impassable by the water The creeks reached their maximum 1 until today. North of Pendleton it Saturday night and yesterday subeid- s reported that the gulche ran full e l all day. Today tnere la but little! and that there waa considerable roaa water running down them. Washouts j damage were reported in several places along The snow has continued, sometimes the O.-W. tracks between this city; lightly and sometimes heavily, nearlv and Walla Walla and stretche track were repaired between Walla Waha and Havanna and the crews are now working between this city j -,h th hiet w:,h ij.nuu ........ u a a . - - - I outs occurred. ! The Pendleton-Walla Walla trains EARLY SETTLER IS DEAD ! lfhed i, OF freewa. TER PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF 81 YEARS. VINCENT, Ore., Jan. SL--Alfred, Wlelman. a resident oi this vicinity since lgtJ, Is dead at the home all his daughter, Mrs. Mary Holbrook, near Freewater. He was 81 years oid.i In 1SS2 he crossed the plains with an ox-team with 300 other wagon 1 Many Indian skirmishes were fought, i Mr Wellman settled in Walla Walla i valley. j In 1S71 Mr county assessor. In the work of compil ng the 191o . L . . . ... .. HIT lumber cut. the forest service has sent, ' . ,,, . ... T out requests to 2. sawmills In Waafc.) InfftOB and sawmills in Oregon, j Additional requests have been sent toi 111 shingle mills in Oregon and lal Oregon and Washington. 397 shingle mills In out for Helix and the party came back Such, however, was not the Another party of young men. com. posed of the Kirkpatrick bora, Archie Uugg and Jack McDonald, set out last evening in autos over the resei -vatlon road They reached Eastlani abandoned their cars at the rivulet across the road, waded across and r. n he l the Sam Thompson place at 1:30 in the morning There thev apeal the balance of the night and thin morning born wed his Ford run- about and went on to the Adams place. The girls were thus brought back to the Thompson place and transfer, re, t oie cars of the voauaa men on the return trip the cars took to the railroad tracks near Ssxe and made their way for a mile or more on them, even crossing several trestles. without further Incident, the reached home about 10;S0 this partv ag The game at Weston Saturday ev enlng was won with a margin ol about ten points the score bains M.methlng like 55 to ; The bars' team did not play at Weaton. having come home frton Walla Walla b erlj of Fmatilla. The gins on the trie have been annulled and the Spokane trains have been routed by way of riifti Torrente of water swept down the gulleys near Saxe, Havanna and Blakely and the macadam road was swept into Wild Horse creek In sev eral places. It has been Impossible for cars or other vehicle to croea these washouts and tne road will practically be Impassable until It Is repaired. : Tutullla creek also weflt on a ram- ol.all day, several Inches having fallen since o'clock this morning. How ever th snow Is somewhat damp, and lying on damp, soft ground, is melt ing some. The temperature has not been low enough today to prevent tbe melting. DIUnUUDO I HOC III KAIlblltKO LUot ALL IN FLOODS RAGING REFUGEES FLEE STRKttEN D1S TRKTS WITH SC ANT HOISE II OLD GOODS. Yl'MA. Jan. 21. The Colorado and j Oila rivers are receding, but a sec Wellman was elected ond flood crest Is reported advancing. I due this afternoon The damage la estimated at a quarter of a, million. I F(,llr . f.. ran.ip.aj ... . . I ... t iuma proposes to abandon the . , K Present flooded business section and gj land dange, mark u Partl" of refugees, driven from uieir rnncnes. arriveo toaay. iney i reported ether wandering banda ar ! en route. These people are destitute. I Their homes and rands have been I swept away Some drive small bunch 1 es of cattle and carried tneir house hold goods on their backs. One band numbered 75. Including : women and children. They reported many lives had been saved hurl , couriers rode ahead or the suddenly .rising waters, carrying a warning PEORIA. Jan. 21,-The railr..,id dyke at Hollig broke ,nd the Illinois ' river has flooded property on th I west side of Peorta The terminal dyke guarding the Lamarsh (Uati Is holding, but is threatened -he highest river is water predl. th- hlst'.rv NATCHEZ, of the lowl.cn, I household goo. iiove.l their Hie aeekir-af refuge on hither imam,! o. . , mlaalasli.pl is I ,. t still rising. SHIP SINKS: CREW REIVED 10 SAFETY II 1. 1 KAN J IBBnltloM MM PotUsatla miles off Cape race the II Qutaeypl v.t h asTllasasil I sooadlna lo the PoUaatla .inii Han all The Venll found th I al most awash ini waited fur too hour, for the see to subside befora rum ,., .